The discovery indicates water may have remained stable on Mars for much longer than scientists thought.
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The Perseverance rover has arrived at what’s thought to be an ancient shoreline on Mars.
AI poses a variety of ethical conundrums, but the NASA teams working on Mars rovers exemplify an ethic of care and human-robot teamwork that could act as a blueprint for AI’s future.
Flying the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars is the equivalent of flying one at about 100,000 feet on Earth. Tricky, considering the highest helicopter flight ever recorded maxed out at 42,000 feet.
NASA’s successful Mars landing will reveal yet more secrets from the red planet. But there is much we already know from Martian fragments that found their way to Earth.
Methane gas in the atmosphere is a tantalising hint suggesting that life could exists on Mars.
The Perseverance rover’s landing could help reveal secrets of Mars’ interior.
Plus what protesters in Belarus want to happen next. Episode 1 of The Conversation’s new weekly podcast.
Martian meteorites allow scientists here on Earth to decode that planet’s geology, more than a decade before the first missions are scheduled to bring rocks back home from Mars.
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